Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23232, Peter Gilson, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass
Gilson, Peter
S 23232
CONTENTS

No 569 Vermont
Peter Gilson
Hartland in the State of Vermont who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Lilly of the Reg t commanded by Col. Crane in the Artillery for one month, and ten months in Smith's Company & Putnam's Reg t in the Mass. Line and two years in the Light Infantry Com- pany attached to the same Reg t
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 80 Dollars 83 Cents per an- num commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of September 1832 and sent to Elisha Lucas Esq. Hartland Vermont
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832, 121. 21 Pension, allowance ending 4 Mar, 33 40 41 $161, 65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. E. Clark Clerk. Book D Vol. 4 Page 59

Pension 3 Oppu 3 Peter Wilson

State of Vermont } Windsor County } ss
On this 25 th day of July 1832. personally appeared, before the Honorable Isaiah Raymond, Judge of the Court of Probate held at Hartland within and for the District of Hartford & County & State aforesaid, Peter Gilson, aged 68 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision, made by act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832 . That he has been previously on the Pension Roll of the United States, & that he was struck from the same on account of his property - That he served as a private soldier in Col s Coanes, R. Putnam's On Vons Regiments - & Pattersons & others Brigades, of the Massachusetts line; that his present place of residence is Hartland in Windsor County & State of Vermont - & that his place of residence when his first application was made for a pension, was Groton, State of Massachusetts see certificate No. 16.191.
& that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever, to a pension, or annuity (except the present) and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State, only on that of the agency of the State of Massachusetts aforesaid. Peter Gilson.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states—
I, Lyndon A. Marsh, Register of the Probate Court of the District of Hartford in the State of Ver- mont, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Peter Gibson for a pension—
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 25. day of July, A. D. 1832—
L. A. Marsh, Register

Revolution
23232
INVALID.
Revolution
File No. 23, 232
Peter Gilmore
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 154
[Arrangement of 1870.]

16. 191
Massachusetts
Peter Gilson
of Groton in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of October 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of Dec r and sent to Samuel Dana Esq. Groton Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1820 B.P. 79
Semi-annual ce ending
6 Mo 20 31
$38.79
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
See Letter 16 July 1832 to Hon: Horace Everett.

Peter Gilson
Private
81 to 84
Putnam Map to
Regt
Admitted

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen Personally appeared Peter Gilson and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. And at the same time he exhibited to me, the Depositions of Major Sylvanus Smith, David Farwell and Dudley Kemp, which are hereunto annexed. And I certify that I know the fact of said Gilson, leaving his house less fare and that one of his Children was consumed therein And that he is now so reduced in his circumstances as to stand in need of assistance from his Country for support-
So that from which it appears to me, that the said Peter Gilson did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, regardless of nine months. and that he is entitled to be placed on the Pension list-
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration with the documents aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the Eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen .
Sam. Dana

I Sylvanus Smith, late a Captain in the Revolutionary Army, do depose and say, that one Peter Gilson, who then lived at Pepperell in the State of Massachusetts, belonged to that Army. I have examined my muster rolls, and find that he came into my Company in the month of June A.D. 1781. and continued therein until the first day of March A.D. 1782, I then was attached to the 5th Massachusetts Regiment, Commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam, on the said first day of March aforesaid, said Gilson was transferred to the Infantry Company, all this appears from my papers now in my possession, the said Gilson is present, while I make this affidavit, & says he now lives at Hardwick in Vermont - Sylvanus Smith
I David Farwell do depose and say, that I entered the Revolutionary Army in the year of our Lord 1777, and continued therein until the end of the war, I served as a Sergeant about three last years, & was discharged with a half a month's pay as in my Discharge by my Warrant now on file in the War Office. And I know & well remember, that Peter Gilson now present while I make this affidavit, who then lived in Pepperell, the same Town where I resided, and who says he now belongs to Hardwick in Vermont, also belonged to that Army, he joined it in June A.D. 1781. & belonged to the Company of Capt. Smith as above stated by him and I know that he continued in that Company ever afterwards transferred to the Infantry, and he continued in the Infantry until I received my discharge after the war when being a three years man was left by me in service. And further says not - David Farwell

I Dudley B. Kemp, do depose and say, that I served as a Soldier in the Revolutionary war, from the commencement to the end thereof, & was honored with a Badge of merit, as by my discharge on file in the War Office will appear — and I further say, that I was in Capt. Bensons Company in Col. Joseph Vares Regiment in the year AD 1781. & was then in the State of Virginia, the last of November or first of December of that year I left Virginia landed at Elk river, & marched to West point & was ordered into Capt. Sylvanus Smiths Company of Col. Putnam's Regiment in the Artillery line, and I there found one Peter Gilson who was from Pepperell, the same Town to which I belonged, & I understood he was a three years man, how long he had been in the Company, I do not know, before my arrival at West point, but I know he continued in that Company some time, was then transferred to the Infantry, and he continued there doing duty until I received my discharge, on the tenth of June AD 1783 and I left him in service when I left the Army — He now states to me while making this affidavit, that he has resided at Hartford in Vermont.
Dudley Kemp
Common Wealth of Massachusetts
On the eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Nineteen before me the Subscriber Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit and a Justice of the Peace there against the same Common Wealth, Personally appeared Major Sylvanus Smith and M aj . David Tutell and Dudley Kemp and each for himself severally made Oath, that the foregoing Depositions by them respectively subscribed are just and true in all their several particulars — and I do hereby certify that the said Major Smith, M aj David Tutell and Dudley Kemp, all of them respectable Citizens of good fame, well entitled to full faith and entire credit, before all Tribunals and Magistrates, and in all places whatever — and that they, and each of them are wholly disinterested in the application of Peter Gilson to be placed on the Pension List —
Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid —
Sam. Dana

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered that on the 6 th  11 th day of October in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred, and nineteen before me, Samuel Dana Chief Justice of the Circuit Court, of Common Pleas, for the middle Circuit comprehending the Counties of Essex, and Middlesex, being a Court of Record duly established by law. Comes Peter Gilson late of Hartland, in the State of Vermont, but now resident at Groton in said County of Middlesex and on Oath declares, that he served in the war of the Revolution, against the common enemy nearly forty months - He first served three months at Rhode Island in Capt. Porter's Company, in Col. Haws Regiment of Mass a Militia - Some time in July  February  an  the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred, and twenty one, the said Town of Pepperell procured him, to enter the Army and light one, the said Town of Pepperell procured him, to enter the Army upon the Continental establishment, he returned to Boston in which was then received by Col. Crane, who mustered him, and ordered him to Westpoint by the way of Springfield, when he arrived at Westpoint, he was ordered into Capt. Lillie's Company of Col. Crane's Regiment of Artillery, in which he remained about four weeks, when upon his own request, he was transferred to Capt. Sylvanus Smith's Company in Col. Hays's Putnam's Regiment of the Massachusetts line, in which Company he had a Brother then serving, in this Company he remained as well as he can recollect, until the next march following when he was transferred into the Light Infantry Company, of that Regiment in that Company, he remained, until the Peace, when the men, who had enlisted, during the war, were discharged, the Regiments, and Companies, were reduced, and he continued, in the Infantry, until the fourth day of January, 1784, when he received a discharge in New York City, from Major Gen. Knox - This discharge he preserved until the same was burned in his house in Dec r 1799 at Hartland  Pepperell - Since he left service he has enjoyed some property, but by the loss of his house, and an unjust lawsuit against him, his property was reduced and impaired, that he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support.
This made taken subscribed and sworn to Peter Gilson Groton within said Circuit the day and year aforesaid -
Sam l Dana